Content Adaptive Subsampling for Stereo Interleaving Video Coding

Stereo interleaving video coding receives considerable attention due to its desirable property of being compatible with 2D video coding standards. The errors caused by sub sampling (causing distortion between subsampling interpolated image and the original full resolution one) and by quantization during compression lead to the final distortion in stereo interleaving video coding. In this paper, the rate and distortion analysis in stereo interleaving video coding is provided. It proves that appropriate sub sampling in stereo interleaving video coding is able to obtain good compression performance. Subsequently, a content adaptive sub sampling (CAS) is proposed. In CAS, the half resolution frames are generated by decimation, where the down sampling filter coefficients are calculated based on frame contents and the targeted interpolation coefficients. Experiment results demonstrate that the CAS is able to achieve high compression efficiency of stereo interleaving encoding scheme for stereoscopic videos.